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In reply to the discussion: 10 Facts about Lee Oswald that make 70% of Americans Wonder... [View all]stopbush
(24,396 posts)Read up on Ruby. He was a huge fan of JFK (RFK, not so much). He was extremely distraught after Oswald killed JFK.
The story Ruby told to Secret Service agent Forrest Sorrels 30 minutes after he executed Oswald and that he told to many others was:
When this thing happened referring to the assassination, that he was in a newspaper office placing an ad for his business. That when he heard about the assassination, he had canceled his ad and had closed his business, and he had not done any business for 3 days. That he had been grieving about this thing. That on the Friday night he had gone to the synagogue and had heard a eulogy on the President. That his sister had recently been operated on, and that she has been hysterical. That when he saw that Mrs. Kennedy was going to have to appear for the trial, he thought to himself, why should she have to go through this ordeal for this no-good so-and-so.
That's what Ruby said his motivation was for killing Oswald.